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Denver was barely a century old in the go-go ’60s, when eager developers began wiping this city’s past off the map, demolishing old buildings downtown and replacing them with surface parking lots, all in the name of urban renewal. But much of that stopped when Denver City Council approved the Denver Landmark Preservation Ordinance in March 1967, a year after the National Historic Preservation Act was enacted and two years after Dana Crawford began creating Larimer Square.

Forty years after her father bought the historic Zang Mansion, Janet Greiner has sold it for $2 million to a buyer who plans to upgrade the electrical and plumbing systems. It’s bittersweet for Greiner, whose father, Rodney Greiner, died last fall. Greiner says she doesn’t have the time or the…

Thanks to Denver’s red-hot real estate market, more and more people trying to buy a home in the metro area are finding themselves in bidding wars, resulting in offers that frequently blow past the property’s listed price. The incredible demand, as well as the speed with which purchases are being made, explains why some real estate agents have started putting up “Coming Soon” signs on houses before changing them to “For Sale.”

Three Colorado-related proposals are among eleven U.S. finalists in a global challenge being staged by Hyperloop One, a project associated with billionaire Elon Musk that aims to produce high-tech tubes through which passengers and cargo can travel at speeds up to 700 miles per hour.

A new survey lists Denver among the top ten U.S. cities for job seekers owing to the area’s strong economy, low unemployment rate and plenitude of high-tech industries. But the man behind one of the city’s most popular job sites feels that these factors mask the difficulties many people in Denver are having when it comes to making a comfortable living.

Frontier Airlines finished dead last among the twelve carriers analyzed in the 2017 Airline Quality Rating, just as it did in 2014. According to the report’s co-author, Frontier sunk to the bottom of the rankings again after finishing in eighth and eleventh place during 2015 and 2016, respectively, due largely to customer anger over a series of delays and cancellations last December at Denver International Airport and other facilities around the country. But he also feels the airline may be suffering from something of an identity crisis.

Denver is suddenly stuck on nicknames. Developers are smacking hip labels on once-dowdy parts of town; the Colorado-born creators of South Park are smacking those developers with SoDoSoPa mockeries. So far, though, only three neighborhood nicknames have passed any test of time. One of them is RiNo, and the area is holding its annual meeting April 13.

A new survey lists Denver as one of the ten best cities in the country for job seekers. And the city’s status in this area just keeps improving.

The ten priciest homes for sale in Colorado right now are scenic, spectacular, sprawling and spendy in the extreme. The least expensive of the batch costs $35 million, and the top pick on the list can be yours only if you have more than $50 million at your disposal.

Rent prices in Denver and throughout the metro area are up over the past month, according to the April report from Apartment List. But while rents in specific Denver neighborhoods aren’t exactly cheap, the majority of those spotlighted in the report are actually lower than they were just over a year ago.

A pair of massive high rises towering 32 stories over a neighborhood of modest homes in Wash Park West reached another construction milestone during a recent “topping off” ceremony in which the final beam, signed by those attending the event, was lifted into place.

A new list of the best mid-size U.S. cities to visit names Boulder as the finest destination in the Mountain West, with an incredible eight other Colorado communities, many of which aren’t considered typical tourist destinations, landing in the top 25 for the region.

LoHi is one of Denver’s hottest neighborhoods. That wasn’t the case when it was just known as the lower edge of Highland.

Denver is suddenly awash in nicknames. Developers are smacking hip labels on formerly unhip areas of town; the creators of South Park are smacking those developers with mocking SoDoSoPa mockeries. The city is drowning in an alphabet soup.Denver has always had nicknames — Mile High City, Queen City of the Plains — but the first neighborhood nickname to really stick was LoDo.

The River North neighborhood is hip. So hip that even its abbreviation, RiNo, is cool. But there’s a lot more to this neighborhood than hipsters, bustling restaurants and cool street art. Keep reading for seven stories about RiNo (including one that challenges that very nickname). 1. Welcome to Denver’s Hottest…

Denver wants to renamed Brighton Boulevard, but readers think the city should be resurfacing streets, not renaming them,

The latest economic indicators for the Denver metro area show that the local economy remains red-hot. But while that’s generally a positive, the pace of growth is creating shortages of affordable housing either to buy or rent.

The Denver-area housing market remains so hot that bidding wars and above-list sales have become commonplace not just here but in other parts of the state, too. These factors and others help explain why a recent survey deemed Colorado to be among the worst places in the country for first-time home buyers.

If city officials have their way, Brighton Boulevard will soon have a new name.

Gary DeFrange took Winter Park in a bold new direction, one that has salvaged its troubled relationship with the City of Denver and transformed what was once a dowdy day-ski area into a full-service, year-round destination resort.

Forbes has just released its list of the world’s billionaires, and of the 2,043 individuals who’ve achieved this benchmark, ten of them live in Colorado.

Two years after it was acquired for back taxes by Gilpin County, the historic Belvidere Theatre in Central City is entering the second phase of its restoration. The structure, built in 1875 at the south end of Main Street in Central City’s National Historic Landmark District, was listed in 2016…